See also AppLit's
Authors Index for AppLit pages dealing with specific people, and
Author Links
for annotated external web links. Some of the individuals below are not Appalachians
but they have adapted or illustrated one or two folktales set in Appalachia
and described on other AppLit pages. Use the Site Index and Ferrum College Search page for more detailed searches in AppLit. Most authors and artists now have their own web sites that you can find easily by entering their names into a search engine.

Carden, Gary. Tannery Whistle.Com:
Folk Stories in Words and in Paint. Contains information
on books, videos, plays and narrative folk paintings by a North Carolina storyteller
and playwright. Also includes Carden's versions of some Cherokee Myths
and Legends. http://tannerywhistle.com.

Carter-Sexton, Beverly Olivia- Kentucky storyteller

Fine, Elizabeth C. "‘Lazy
Jack’: Coding and Contextualizing Resistance in Appalachian Women’s
Narratives." NWSA Journal: A Publication of the National Women’s
Studies Association , vol. 11 (Fall 1999): 112-137. Available online through
library services such as Academic Index ASAP. Transcribes and analyzes Carter-Sexton's
feminist retelling of "Lazy Jack," in which she "recasts a Jack
tale involving cannibalism and self-cannibalism into a tale that challenges
traditional gender and economic relationships that the storyteller has observed
in her native Rockcastle County, Kentucky."

Chase, Richard - folklorist,
storyteller

Halpert, Herbert. "Folktales
in Children's Books: Some Notes and Reviews." Midwest Folklore
2, no. 1 (Spring 1952):59-71. Surveys children's folktale collections as items
of interest to folklorists, pointing out their strengths and weaknesses and
suggesting criteria for evaluation. Discusses the importance of authenticity
and scholarship, pointing out the work of Richard Chase and Harold Courlander
as outstanding examples. (notes by Linnea Hendrickson)

Perdue, Charles L., Jr. "Is Old Jack Really Richard Chase?" Journal of Folklore
Research, vol. 38 (2001), pp. 111-38. Analyzes Chase's transmission of
oral tales he collected and the extent to which his versions reflect his own
character. Abstract of article at this link. This is in a Special Double Issue:
Perspectives on the Jack Tales and Other North American M”rchen.

Wolfenstein, Martha. "Jack
and the Beanstalk": An American Version." In Childhood in Contemporary
Cultures. Ed. Margaret Mead and Martha Wolfenstein. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1955, pp. 243-45. Examines the way in which the tale has been
transformed in the American version "Jack and the Bean Tree," as told
in the mountains of North Carolina and recorded by Richard Chase. (note by Linnea
Hendrickson)

"The
Piggy Song," with two versions of lyrics, one sung by Bonnie Collins, and
a story by WV storyteller Collins, in Humorsection of West Virginia
World School's web site West Virginia's
Appalachian Music and Literature, with student activities and teacher resources
(now in AppLit's Study Guides section).

"Tall
Tales from West Virginia's Top 'Liars'."
All Things Considered. National Public Radio. Saturday, May 27, 2006.
NPR.org. Story on WV Liars Contest features storytellers and judges Bill Lepp
and Bonnie Collins (at age 90). Audio and photos available on web page,
including tales told by Lepp and Collins.

Folkstreams.net. A web
site created by Tom and Mimi Davenport, folklorist Daniel Patterson,
and others in 2002 "to build a national preserve of hard-to-find
documentary films about American folk or roots cultures.... [and] to give them
renewed life by streaming them on the internet." Includes Davenport's
documentary films about Appalachia and other American films.

Donald
Davis, Storyteller. On Davis's web site, you can find photos, "biographical
information, performance schedule information, information on ordering books
and recordings, information about the national and world-wide storytelling revival,
and other information."

Oxford, Cheryl. Review of Listening for the Crack of Dawn: A Master
Storyteller Recalls the Appalachia of His Youth, 1990 book.
NC Folklore Journal, vol. 38
(Summer-Fall 1991): 189-90. The book is a series of coming-of-age stories
from Davis's youth among interesting characters in Haywood County, NC in the
1950s but anyone can relate to it, as the "themes are universal and evocative";
it is his "delight in the ordinary which gives the book its extraordinary
charm." The review ends, "Donald Davis's book is a triumph."

Stadter, Philip (U of NC, Chapel
Hill). "Herodotus and the North Carolina Oral Narrative Tradition."
Histos, vol. 1 (1997). Detailed scholarly article with extensive
footnotes, in an electronic journal of ancient historiography, comparing oral
storytelling of Herodotus and Beech Mountain Hicks-Harmon family and
Donald Davis. Comments, by John Marincola, includes comparison of Jack with
Odysseus.

Elizabeth Ellis,
Storyteller. Official web site of a storyteller who has been a favorite for
many years at the National Storytelling Festival and elsewhere, telling stories
of heroic women, tales from Appalachia and Texas.

Gail
E. Haley Papers, de Grummond Archives, Univ. of Southern Minnesota - includes
material on Jack and the Bean Tree.

Haley, Gail.Gail E. Haley: Her Stories,
Her Stories. Web site with pictures and information on her writing,
illustrating, puppetry, and author visits. Includes several illustrations
with background on her books based on Appalachian folktales.

Rabbit Goes to Kansas. The 5th Annual Art Exhibit for Children Featuring the Work of Murv
Jacob, Illustrator. Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, Kansas, 2006.
Exhibit of illustrations for Cherokee tales written by Deborah Duvall.

Chuck Larkin page at Storyteller.net lists many Appalachian
materials in his work.

Lepp, Bill - WV storyteller

"Tall
Tales from West Virginia's Top 'Liars'."
All Things Considered. National Public Radio. Saturday, May 27, 2006.
NPR.org. Story on WV Liars Contest features storytellers and judges Bill Lepp
and Bonnie Collins. Audio and photos available on web page, including tales told
by Lepp and Collins.

Teacher Resource File on Julius Lester at Internet School Library
Media Center, James Madison U., including resources on John Henry.

Lough, Anne - musician,
instructor in Appalachian heritage

Anne Lough page with photo at The North Carolina Touring Artists
Directory web site, with booking info. A nationally known dulcimer player, "she
brings to life the folk songs, ballads, folk hymns, stories, dances, and play-party
traditions of the Southern Appalachians. Lough is currently an instructor at
the John C. Campbell Folk School and for Elderhostel programs, lecturer at Western
Carolina University and is very active in the Mountain Arts Program in schools
throughout the western part of" NC.

McWilliams, Barry. Barry McWilliams' Home Page. This
web site by a storyteller and Bible teacher in Everett, WA includes an index
to folktales he tells, including "Soap, Soap, Soap,"
and pages on storytelling and listening techniques, storytelling for churches.

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs
- New England writer of books for young readers

Sobol, Joseph Daniel. Review of
From my Grandmother's Grandmother Unto Me. Dir. John David Allen. Written
and Perf. Clarinda Ross Clark. The Journal of American Folklore 1992
359-60. Available online through library services such as JSTOR. In this film
Charlotte's Ross's daughter tells the story of five generations of women in
their family.

Five short reviews of picture book
Swamp Angel with cover, on page on Tall Tales at ChildrensLit.com.

See also the Folklore
section of the
AppLit Links and the page on
Folktale Collections.
Many collections and picture books contain background notes and introductions
on oral traditions and storytellers. For additional teaching resources, see
AppLit's
Study Guides and
Lesson Plans sections.